Politics: Flight of the Byrd

Harry Byrd Sr. served one term as Virginia's Governor, five full terms
as Senator, and for half a century ran the Old Dominion's Democratic
Party as if it were a company town. Son Harry Jr., however, has had
trouble controlling the legacy he received after his father's
retirement in 1965 and death a year later. In 1969 Virginia Democrats
rejected the Byrd machine's conservative gubernatorial candidate in
favor of a moderate who ultimately lost to Republican Linwood Holton.
Last week "Young Harry," 55, himself abdicated the Byrd throne that he
had so...